Abstract: Laminated wood products are manufactured from first and second adjacent sawn wood strips that are cut with corresponding upper and lower edges, and inner and outer faces. The strips are rotated in opposite directions so that corresponding edges are toward each other, and the inner face of one strip and the outer face of the second strip are at the top of the strips. One of the strips is then turned end-to-end without rotation, so that both faces on the upper surface are either inner faces or outer faces. The adjacent edges are then glued to form a composite wood product. The composite product may form the surface ply of a five-layer face bonded wood laminate, which includes a center ply having edge dimensioning formed from the center ply. The surface laminate is preferably formed of reclaimed heartwood, and all layers of the face laminate are preferably formed of the same wood species.